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“Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”
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“The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”
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“The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.”
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“Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?”
Source : "The transformative power of classical music". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2008. 
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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
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“There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.”
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“A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.”
Source : Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)
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